January 14, 2016 Luke’s team had a good night at the hotel in Papallacta with a big dinner at the restaurant and a couple of good ‘soaks’ in the hot springs. They’re prepping now for an attempt on Antisana. Down on the Ice, Austin reports it’s too warm and it’s snowing too much. It normally […]
January 13, 2016 The call came in this morning from Luke to let us know they’d had a successful summit of Cayambe this morning. Weather was pretty ‘misty’ yesterday but cleared off last night, enabling the team to summit. Well done. They’re already down, packed and on their way out, heading for the hot springs […]
January 12, 2016 Let’s catch up with our teams in the Southern Hemisphere. Luke, Romulo and team are ‘barely’ in the Southern Hemisphere right now and part of the day will be in the Northern Hemisphere, actually. They are up at the climber’s hut on Cayambe and taking the day to do more acclimatization and […]
January 10, 2016 Here’s a quick summary of Sunday’s ‘movements’ for IMG teams down south. Quick call came in from Austin Shannon and team on the Ice. They moved quickly to C1 today. Couldn’t be going smoother, so far. Josh McDowell and team retrieved gear and supplies at C2 and headed down the mountain to […]
January 9, 2016 BUSY season for IMG teams in South America and Antarctica.  Let’s starts with our Vinson teams first. As you know, Greg Vernovage, Austin Shannon and their team all stood together on the summit of Vinson a couple of days ago. They flew off the Ice this morning, exactly on schedule. One night […]
November 23, 2015 After a long day attempting Antisana, breaking camp and heading out, the team enjoyed a nice evening at Hacienda La Cienega Saturday. Got up yesterday, had breakfast at La Cienega and then visited the Sunday market in Machachi. Romulo’s wife, Patricia, had prepared typical Ecuadorian cuy for the team. They then visited […]
November 21, 2015 Close, so close, but the team had to turn just short of the summit. Good weather, team was climbing strong but simply could not find a way around a very big schrund which sits just below the summit. Several other teams were trying to find a way, too, but all came up […]
November 18, 2015 The news from Mexico was good this morning. Austin called about 7 am Seattle time to let me know that everyone summited Ixta this morning under clear skies and that they were already back at high camp. They’ll finish packing up and head down to the vehicles and continue on to the […]
November 17, 2015 Let’s kill two birds with one stone because the news is about the same. Ecuador and Mexico had very productive days on Monday. Austin/Dallas and their Mexico crew had a good carry up to their high camp on Ixta, came back down and spent the night at a place called the Altzimoni […]
November 16, 2015 We think the team is Ecuador is having just too much fun. After their hike over the weekend on Fuya Fuya and Imbabura, the crew headed to a new hacienda called Papa Gayo. Very nice! Today, they’re getting serious as they head up to the hut on Cayambe. Plan is for two […]
